{"product_id":"theatres-of-melancholy-9780500094075","title":"Theatres of Melancholy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s note \u003cbr\u003e  Prologue\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eFirst act: 1926\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  1. Exiles\u003cbr\u003e  2. Leonid’s travels\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSecond act: Against the tide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  3. Gertrude Stein’s prevarications \u003cbr\u003e  4. Ten portraits\u003cbr\u003e  5. The ‘Bérard era’\u003cbr\u003e  6. Tchelitchew: weightiness and grace\u003cbr\u003e  7. Transparent bodies\u003cbr\u003e  8. Eugene Berman: dreaming of architecture\u003cbr\u003e  9. A Paper Ball \u003cbr\u003e  10. Medusa \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThird act: Figures of style\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  11. Two minor arcana\u003cbr\u003e  12. The strange case of Waldemar-George\u003cbr\u003e  13. The invention of Neo-Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e  14. Neo-Humanism is a Neo-Mannerism\u003cbr\u003e  15. Fantasy landscapes\u003cbr\u003e  16. The theory of the saltimbanque\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eFourth act: Convergence lines\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  17. The lightness of being \u003cbr\u003e  18. The English scene\u003cbr\u003e  19. Kit Wood, the outsider\u003cbr\u003e  20. The art of nuance\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402754400599,"sku":"9780500094075","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500094075.jpg?v=1730481414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theatres-of-melancholy-9780500094075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}